xDress Blues- Jason Isbell
Chords Used:
G: 320033
Em/G: 022033
C/G: x32033
D: xx0232
F#/G: 2x0033
Bm: x24432
[Intro]
GEm/GGEm/G
[Verse]
GEm/G
What can you see from your window?
GEm/G
I can't see anything from mine.
GEm/G
Flags on the side of the highway
C/GGD
and scripture on grocery store signs.
GEm/G
Maybe eighteen was too early.
GEm/G
Maybe thirty or forty is too.
GEm/G
Did you get your chance to make peace with the man
C/GGD
before he sent down his angels for you?
[Chorus]
Em/GF#/GG
Mamas and grandmamas love you
Em/GF#/GGF#/G
'cause that's all they know how to do.
Em/GBm
You never planned on the bombs in the sand
C/GGD
or sleeping in your dress blues.
[Verse]
GEm/G
Your wife said this all would be funny
GEm/G
when you came back home in a week.
GEm/G
You'd turn twenty-two and we'd celebrate you
C/GGD
in a bar or a tent by the creek.
GEm/G
Your baby would just about be here.
GEm/G
Your very last tour would be up
GEm/G
but you won't be back. They're all dressing in black
C/GGD
drinking sweet tea in styrofoam cups.
[Chorus]
Em/GF#/GG
Mamas and grandmamas love you
Em/GF#/GGF#/G
American boys hate to lose.
Em/GBm
You never planned on the bombs in the sand
C/GGD
or sleeping in your dress blues.
[Bridge]
[Verse]
GEm/G
Now the high school gymnasium's ready,
GEm/G
full of flowers and old legionnaires.
GEm/G
Nobody showed up to protest,
C/GGD
just sniffle and stare.
GEm/G
But there's red, white, and blue in the rafters
GEm/G
and there's silent old men from the corps.
GEm/G
What did they say when they shipped you away
C/GGD
to fight somebody's Hollywood war?
[Outro]
Em/GF#/GG
Nobody here could forget you.
Em/GF#/GGF#/G
You showed us what we had to lose.
Em/GBm
You never planned on the bombs in the sand
C/GGD
or sleeping in your dress blues.
Em/GBm
You never planned on the bombs in the sand
C/GGD
or sleeping in your dress blues.